bryan metzger
@metzgov
senior politics reporter @businessinsider
Scooplet: Spotted something unusual in a financial disclosure today — another politician, a Democrat no less, invested in @PelosiTracker_. @JDScholten, who's running for US Senate in Iowa, told me he put $1,000 into it at the beginning of 2024. He's since seen a 60% return.
new kinda guy who finds out about A.I. data center water consumption and stops drinking water so the data centers can have more
that's awesome thanks
🚌 Your new bus network Ride & Vibe Playlist is FINALLY HERE! 🎧🎵You picked the album cover and voted for ‘bus’ 💚 (+ we threw in the deluxe version because we just couldn’t resist 😝). Listen on Apple Music or Spotify: ➡️ music.apple.com/us/library/pla… ➡️ open.spotify.com/playlist/1VORv…
a good AI use case: i took the transcript of that Hunter Biden podcast interview, dumped it into ChatGPT and asked for a summary, saw nothing of interest, moved on with my day
... x.com/daveweigel/sta…
"If I became president," says Hunter Biden, "I would call up the fucking president of El Salvador and say: You either fucking send them back or I'm gonna fucking invade." Folks... youtu.be/XBbkt2vYC4M?si…
After declaring 3.5 years ago that he would "never endorse this jerk again," Trump has endorsed Sen. Mike Rounds for reelection in 2026.
Why Sen. Susan Collins dropped her amendment to scale back the recissions bill from $9 billion to $6.5 billion. And what it means for the rest of the appropriations process.... -> puck.news/collins-backs-…
CBO’s updated estimate on the OBBBA says 10 million people will be uninsured by 2034 due to the bill. That’s down from the previous 11.8 million estimate, and due to the Senate parliamentarian striking the provision that would have reduced FMAP for states who covered immigrants.
Estimated Budgetary Effects of Public Law 119-21, to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14, Relative to CBO’s January 2025 Baseline cbo.gov/publication/61…
This stock trading issue is not going away for him and, per people I have talked to, makes this the seat Republicans are most anxious about losing, after the Bacon seat in NE.
👀👀👀 Rob Bresnahan’s stock trading gets called out in the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience #PA08